On Apr 30, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Tony White wrote:
2009/4/30 Marco Maggesi <[email protected]>:
Thank you Lluís and Tony for yours suggestions.
On Apr 29, 2009, at 11:13 PM, Tony White wrote:
Hi Marco,
if it's not in there already, try adding something like this to your
xserver config in configuration.nix along with your existing
settings
:
Sorry, I didn't mention that, but my favorite resolution is already
specified in the configuration.nix (and it worked fine so far). My
xserver configuration is as follows:
xserver = {
enable = true;
exportConfiguration = true;
videoDriver = "vesa";
sessionType = "";
windowManager = "none";
sessionStarter = "";
resolutions =
[ { x=1440; y=900; } { x=1152; y=864; } { x=1024; y=768; }
{ x=800;
y=600; } ];
extraMonitorSettings = ''
Modeline "1440x900" 106.5000 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 903 909
934
+HSync -VSync
'';
};
I suspect that all my problems are related to this error (found in
X.0.log):
-------------------------------------------------------------------
(II) Loader running on linux
(++) using VT number 7
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (No such file or
directory)
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
(WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor
-------------------------------------------------------------------
But I don't understand which file is actually missing.
In /dev I see all the tty* files as usual.
Marco
Hi Marco,
If you look in /etc/nixos/nixos/system/options.nix you will see
something like :
extraTTYs = mkOption {
default = [];
example = [8 9];
description = "
Tty (virtual console) devices, in addition to the consoles on
which mingetty and syslogd run, that must be initialised.
Only useful if you have some program that you want to run on
some fixed console. For example, the NixOS installation CD
opens the manual in a web browser on console 7, so it sets
<option>boot.extraTTYs</option> to <literal>[7]</literal>.
";
};
You can use that data to create an entry in configuration.nix that
starts tty7 every
time you boot.
I guess that could work but you'll need to test.
Hope that works,
Tony
I tryed but I can't see any change. More precisely:
I put the following in my configuration.nix
boot = {
grubDevice = "/dev/sda";
initrd = { extraKernelModules = [ "ata_piix" "fuse" ]; };
kernelModules = [ ];
extraTTYs = [7 8];
};
Then I rebuilded and rebooted the system, but the xserver still
gives the same error as before:
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (No such file or
directory)
Also, I do not know if this is significant, but if I press Alt-F7
I get a dark screen and if I run the command
initctl list 2>&1 | grep tty
I can see the services stared for tty1 to tty6 but not for tty7.
Marco
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